Speculation : Politics, Ideology, Event
- Submitting institution
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University of Northampton, The
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
- Output identifier
- 4606892
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- ISBN
- 9780810139350
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- While the notion of the speculative has become increasingly widespread in modern thought, it has tended to be deployed in a secondary describing way (typically placed before such terms as “realism”, “idealism” and “materialism”). This book breaks new ground in its direct engagement with the speculative as such. The radical importance of the speculative is shown in relation to key debates around science, culture, economics, ideology and ethics. The development of examples from popular culture throughout the book (The Hunger Games, Star Wars, Maze Runner, and Borat, to name but a few) make the arguments accessible to a broad audience.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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